Fool Quotes - Page 25

• I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.

  Elmore Leonard

  Fun, Believe, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

  Doris Lessing

  Memorable, Learning, College

  Doris May Lessing (1970). “Martha Quest: A Complete Novel”

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• Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

  Jerry Lewis

  People, Laughing, Tables

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• I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

  Richard Russo

  Delighted

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• My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

  Marquis de Sade

  Thinking, Kinky, Care

  marquis de Sade, Richard Seaver (1999). “Letters from Prison”, p.327, Arcade Publishing

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• In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

  George Santayana

  Wise, Men, Talking

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• I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

  Greta Scacchi

  Thinking, Make You Think, Feelings

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• The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wise, Wisdom, Opposites

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• The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

  Franz Schubert

  Wise, Men, Unhappiness

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• Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

  Junior Seau

  Leadership, Guy, Consistency

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• When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Memorable, Birth

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [187]

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• Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Power, Men, Intellectual

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• I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

  Charlie Sheen

  Heart, Winning, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.

  Charlie Sheen

  Running, Coffee, Underwear

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• I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Mean, Thinking, World

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• It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

  Maggie Smith

  Elderly, Maggie, Tolerate

  "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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• People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

  Patti Smith

  People

  Song: People Have the Power

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• If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

  Robert Smith

  Ideas, Pay, Idiot

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• If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

  Ben Stein

  Mean, Dust, Devil

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• My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wine, Kissing, Noses

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.766, Delphi Classics

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• A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beauty, Clever, Successful

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine: A Story”, p.233

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• Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

  Dylan Thomas

  Vanity, Upset, Ordinary

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Christian, Wise, Men

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• There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Victory, Granted, Careless

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• March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Basketball, Good Friend, Sheep

  "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness".

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